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predominatepre‧dom‧i‧nate /prɪˈdɒməneɪt $ -ˈdɑː-/ AWL verb [intransitive] formal   VERB TABLEpredominate |
| Present | I, you, we, they | predominate | | he, she, it | predominates | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | predominated | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have predominated | | he, she, it | has predominated | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had predominated | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will predominate | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have predominated |
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| Present | I | am predominating | | he, she, it | is predominating | | you, we, they | are predominating | | Past | I, he, she, it | was predominating | | you, we, they | were predominating | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been predominating | | he, she, it | has been predominating | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been predominating | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be predominating | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been predominating |
- Before 1860, buffalo predominated in the Great Plains.
- Dairy farms predominate in Sussex.
- In the summer, blue and pink flowers predominate, but there are white flowers, too, for contrast.
- This is a district where Democrats predominate.
- Apologies for absences must again predominate.
- Arable Enterprises Grassland predominated in the 4,770 hectares of arable ground accounting for 83% of this acreage.
- But suffering and death are not the predominating features of nature.
- Here above all the civilizations of the plain predominate, based on irrigation.
- In the twentieth century, in fact, the plural of the word predominates, and is closest to our personal experience.
- It is not always clear which type predominate.
- Old roads and tracks, their paths perhaps related to energy flows, may predominate.
- There are returns to the impasto, but thin painting certainly predominates towards the end of the century.
when there is much more of one type than of other types► mostly/mainly/largely · Apart from the Nile valley, Egypt is mostly desert.· I used to read a lot of poetry, mainly love poetry.· The new immigrants were mainly from Southern Europe.· The surface of Mercury seems to consist largely of dust. ► predominantly if something, especially a group of people, is predominantly of a particular type, most of it is of that type: · The character Shylock is a Jew living in a predominantly Christian society.· As a civil engineer, Susan will be competing in a predominantly male profession.· Our economy is predominantly capitalist. ► predominate formal if people or things of a particular type predominate in a place or situation, they are present in greater numbers than other types of people or things: · Dairy farms predominate in Sussex.· In the summer, blue and pink flowers predominate, but there are white flowers, too, for contrast. ► be in the majority if people of a particular kind are in the majority in an organization or group, they form the largest part of it: · The number of women on the committee has grown steadily and now they are in the majority. ► a preponderance of formal if there is a preponderance of people or things of a particular type in a group, most of the people or things in the group are of that type - used especially when the group is being studied: · At some universities, there is a preponderance of older lecturers.· They chose to investigate reasons for the preponderance of large families among the poor and ill-educated. adjectivepredominantverbpredominateadverbpredominantly 1if one type of person or thing predominates in a group or area, there are more of this type than any other:  Pine trees predominate in this area of forest.2to have the most importance or influence, or to be most easily noticed: In this type of case, the rights of the parent predominate. |